This weekend Dive With Frank finished off summer with a weekend chock full of diving! This also happened to be the weekend that the PADI Instructor Examination was going on, so I was able...
Last weekend (June 29-30th, 2019) by the numbers: 5 new PADI Open Water Divers 7 new PADI Advanced Open Water Divers 2 DMiTs (Divemasters in training) 4 fun divers 9 Open Water Dives 19 dinner...
It’s been a long, dark, chilly, winter and DWF is just itching to get back into the (local) water. With the local water temperatures hovering near the low 40s F, winter tends to be...
Last weekend DWF got to teach two classes to expand my students’ skills envelope. On Saturday (a Divemaster), fresh off last weekend’s Zombie Apocalypse Diver class, decided to take his self-reliant skills as well...
Join Dive With Frank and Columbia Scuba @ Juturna Springs this Halloween as we ring in the holiday with a weekend of spooky scuba experiences! We’ll be up there the evening of Friday, October...
As summer continued to cool down DWF had a weekend jam packed with all sorts of scuba awesomeness, including a PADI Zombie Apocalypse Diver (ZAD) class and bringing three brand spankin’ new PADI Open...
The summer of 2018 and my exploration of our new quarry, Juturna Springs continued this weekend DWF got to run his first PADI Advanced Open Water class there. I’ve the last month or so...
This weekend DWF got to usher three new scuba divers into the tribe. We had a great weekend at Juturna Springs. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again…I’m really starting to like...
Almost two months ago DWF and some of his fellow instructors got themselves a sneak peek at our new quarry, Juturna Springs. This was a week before they had opened, prior to an entry...
DWF spent this weekend doing what he loves, welcoming new scuba divers into the tribe. But as this is the very last weekend Hyde’s Quarry will be open, it was tinged with a bit...
One of the most difficult things I’ve found about being a scuba instructor is making sure that I find and keep a balance between doing enough diving purely for fun and putting aside time...
DWF started off the summer (the summer solstice was this Thursday) with some Zombie Killing Mahem! 2018’s first PADI Zombie Apocalypse Diver class brought together some of the roughest, toughest, zombie hunting enthusiasts this...
DWF (along with my awesome Divemaster Mary) spent this weekend welcoming three new PADI Open Water Scuba Divers into the fold! This was one of those weekends that reminds me exactly why I became...
The last couple of times that I was up at Hyde’s Quarry (our regular scuba training venue) I started hearing rumors that a new quarry might be opening up. First, nobody knew where it...
This weekend DWF finished up his very last scheduled PADI Open Water Scuba Diver course of the year. Flanked by my awesome Divemaster Andrew we took four students through their four Open Water checkout...
DWF survived yet another trip around the sun this weekend and decided to celebrate his **th birthday by taking some students to Hyde’s Quarry for Open Water, Dry Suit, and Peak Performance Buoyancy dives....
September 24 – October 4, 2026
Sun. Salt. Soft coral walls. The South Pacific done right.
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April 24 – May 1, 2027
Warm water. Caribbean reefs. Easy diving. Big adventure energy.
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Three trips. Plenty of teeth.
One heck of a season.
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